18 Jan
2006
18 Jan
'06
5:56 p.m.
On 1/18/2006 at 5:08 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
In mine, Q206 is the 'brwon kludge' I think.
Yup, slip of the neurons between looking at the schematic (with a binocular
loupe--silly thing is too small for my old eyes to read unaided) and
posting the email.
> I haven't checked, but wasn't there also
special-casing in the EGA BIOS
> code to handle the dark yellow=brown case?
I doubt it. I seem to rememebr a PROM in the input
stages of the 5154
monitor, which may well have done the same conversion, though.
Ah, now you're going to make me look at the EGA BIOS listing too! Have you
no mercy? :) It seems to me that it was possible (in other EGA modes) to
display dark yellow instead of brown, but that the legacy CGA modes were
special-cased. I'll check on it, though.
Cheers,
Chuck